[U-Boot] [PATCH for-next 0/3] sunxi: Kconfig consolidation and cleanup

Masahiro Yamada
2014-10-06T02:16:42Z

Hi Ian,

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:32:04 +0100
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 09:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Probably the board [...] selection could be moved out
> > without any dependencies, although the board one in particular will be
> > quite a big patch I think it would be worth it.
>
> On the topic of board selection which way round should the SoC vs. board
> options be arrange? Should we have invisible TARGET_SUN?I options which
> are selected by each board, or should we have the boards depend on the
> appropriate TARGET?
>
> In the first case a user would need to choose from a pretty long list of
> boards, in the second case they would need to know which SoC the board
> has.
>
> I'm leaning towards the first.

Either would work, but as for Tegra, the second one has been chosen.

Architecture select (CONFIG_ARCH)
-> Tegra Platform (CONFIG_TEGRA)
-> Tegra SoC select (CONFIG_TEGRA20 / 30 / 114 / 124)
-> Board select

> I don't think either would be an impediment to an eventually single
> common binary which I'm imagining would appear as a "Generic board"
> option which depends/selects all appropriate SoCs.

Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada